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    India past and present

    Amol Rajan with William Dalrymple, Anita Anand and Sumantra Bose.

  2. Love and unreason

    Andrew Marr with Bettany Hughes, Clare Carlisle, Emma Lewis and Mark Padmore.

  3. Life, death and taxes

    Tom Sutcliffe with Vicky Pryce, Dominic Frisby, Alexander Zevin and Judith Hawley.

  4. Animals and us

    Andrew Marr with Karsten Brensing, Emma Napper, Fritz Vollrath and Diana Donald.

  5. Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo

    Nobel prize-winner Esther Duflo, Julian Barnes and Richard Evans with Tom Sutcliffe.

  6. The artist - warts and all

    Andrew Marr with William Feaver, Humphrey Ocean and Kate Grandjouan

  7. Breaking bread together

    Kirsty Wark with Shamil Thakrar, Priya Basil, Joanna Blythman and Thomas Harding.

  8. Global culture

    Andrew Marr with Fatima Bhutto, Erica Whyman, Sook-Kyung Lee and John Burnside.

  9. Lenny Henry

    Lenny Henry, Tessa McWatt, Matthew Syed and Keon West with Kirsty Wark

  10. Where is power now?

    Andrew Marr with Steve Richards, Ruth Kinna, Catherine Haddon and Eleanor Rhode.

  11. Antony Gormley: challenging conventions

    Tom Sutcliffe with Antony Gormley, Laura Wade, Charles Hazlewood and Daniel Rachel.

  12. Escaping the past

    Andrew Marr with Susan Neiman, David Howell, Jane Green and Stuart Ward.

  13. Epic quests and Greek myths

    Stephen Fry, Alison Balsom, David Hare and Lucy Hughes-Hallett with Tom Sutcliffe

  14. The power of poetry

    Andrew Marr with Rowan Williams, Martin Sixsmith, Jay Bernard and Kate Clanchy

  15. Money - in your pocket and in the bank

    Andrew Marr with John Guy, Miatta Fahnbulleh, Paul Tucker and Alice Tapper.

  16. Beyond the headlines

    Kirsty Wark with Chris King, Hussein Kesvani, Nicole Rousmaniere and Shahidha Bari.

  17. Jared Diamond on national crisis

    Andrew Marr with Jared Diamond, David Runciman and Kate Andrews.

  18. Hay Festival

    Jeanette Winterson, Naomi Wolf and John Browne join Tom Sutcliffe at the Hay Festival.

  19. Medical controversies

    Andrew Marr with Joshua Mezrich, Angela Saini, Caroline Criado Perez and Richard Ashcroft.

  20. Billy Bragg on anger and hope

    Tom Sutcliffe with Kerry Hudson, Billy Bragg, Howard Brenton and Will Tanner.

  21. Icons of English literature

    Andrew Marr with Marion Turner, Emma Smith and Juliet John.

  22. Freedom: From Kierkegaard to Black Lives Matter

    Amol Rajan with DeRay Mckesson, Clare Carlisle, Inua Ellams and Elizabeth Day

  23. Life in the wilderness

    Kirsty Wark with Dan Richards, Rebecca Frecknall, Sarah O'Connor and Heida.

  24. Ian McEwan

    Andrew Marr with Booker prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan.

  25. Ageing visibly

    Andrew Marr with Nicci Gerrard, Sue Armstrong, John Agard and David Slater.

  26. Free Thinking Festival

    Tom Sutcliffe with Harriet Shawcross, William J Burns, Kathryn Tickell and Thomas Dixon

  27. Art for all

    Tom Sutcliffe with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fiona MacCarthy, Tamsin Wimhurst and Alison Brown.

  28. Understanding China

    Andrew Marr with Xinran, Julia Lovell, David KS Tse and Roel Sterckx.

  29. The battle against so-called Islamic State

    Kirsty Wark with David Nott, Azad Cudi, Joana Cook and Claire Foster-Gilbert

  30. Language and Culture

    Andrew Marr with Jhumpa Lahiri, April De Angelis, Katrin Kohl and Marcus du Sautoy

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